Mom of Mich. playground stabber apologizes to victim’s family; troubled 12-year-old tells cops he was 'bad' and ‘wanted to go to jail’: reportsJamarion Lawhorn told police that he stabbed a 9-year-old boy at a playground in suburban Grand Rapids last week because he was 'bad and always did bad things,' investigators said, according to a local report.
BY PHILIP CAULFIELD

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

\FACEBOOKAnita Lawhorn, the mother of Jamarion Lawhorn, 12, who stabbed a 9-year-old boy to death at a playground in Michigan last week.
The Michigan mom of a 12-year-old boy who stabbed a 9-year-old boy to death on a playground last week remained wracked by grief as she apologized to the slain boy's family.

"I'm so sorry that they have to go through what they are going through. I'm just so sorry," accused killer Jamarion Lawhorn's mother, Anita Lawhorn, told the Detroit Free Press.

Lawhorn slid to the floor of her house as she dwelled on the remorse she felt for the family of the murdered child, Connor Verkerke, of Kentwood, the newspaper said.

Witnesses said little Connor's family watched him slip from life while waiting for medics to arrive at their suburban Grand Rapids home following the inexplicable Aug. 4 attack.

"Words cannot express what I'm going through," she told the Free Press, fighting back tears. "And I can't imagine having to feel that type of loss so soon, so sudden."